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Clippings for Champaign County, Illinois
ONE
CHAMPAIGN ROBBER
DIES RESULT OF WOUND
Is Shot by Police
Who Are Summoned by Guest—Loot Was $54,000
Champaign,
IL, Nov. 11.- C. W. Katchman, of Mattoon, one of four
robbers who staged a spectacular holdup of 69 guests, which
netted $54,000 at the home of Henry H. Harris late Saturday night
at a dance in celebration of Illinois football victory over the
Army, died today of a bullet wound below the heart. He was shot
by police who wore called by one of the guests who slipped out of
the room unobserved by the robbers.
Hays Daily News (Hays,
Kansas) Monday, November 11, 1929 - Transcribed by C. Horton
Mr. Lincoln has accepted the
proposition of Mr. Douglas to debate with
him at the following points. Ottawa, La Salle Co., Aug. 21.
Freeport, Stephenson Co., Aug. 27. Jonesboro, Union Co., Sept.
15. Charleston, Coles Co., Sept. 18. Galesburg, Knox Co., Oct. 7.
Quincy, Adams Co., Oct. 13. Alton, Madison Co., Oct. 15. We have
only to express our regret that West Urbana could not have made
one of the points, so that our citizens could have had the
pleasure of listening to the great oratorical tournament between
"Long Abe" and the "Little Giant." There will
be some rare speaking done or we are much mistaken.[Aug. 4,
1858.]
Mr. Stephen A. Douglas is to speak in Urbana on the
last day of the county fair. We have not yet been advised of the
particulars, but will lay them before our readers in due time.
Mr. Lincoln is to address the people of Champaign County, in
Urbana on the 24th of September, and Owen Lovejoy on the 28th.
The arrangements are not entirely completed, but we understand
that a grand demonstration is intended. The canvass is
progressing with great vigor between all the parties concerned.
We shall as heretofore report all items of importance as
news.[Sept. 15, 1858.]
The crowd at the fair laid aside
their business for awhile to listen to a speech from Judge
Douglas, and it is a credit to the citizens of Champaign that
while so large a number of his political opponents were among his
audience he was listened to from first to last with so much
respectful attention. So marked was this that, while the amount
of enthusiasm displayed could hardly have been satisfactory, the
distinguished senator felt called upon to acknowledge it. On
Friday succeeding the last day of the fair a large and
enthusiastic crowd assembled around the grand stand to listen to
Mr. Lincoln, the procession, that part of it composed of the lady
equestriennes in particular, was one of the finest things we have
ever seen, and was over two miles in length. The friends of the
speaker expressed themselves as pre-eminently well satisfied with
the demonstration and with his efforts. What with the fair and
the political excitements of the Urbanas have begun the scene of
considerable bustle and a good deal of confusion during last
week, but things are beginning to settle down once more to their
customary routine. The farmers have returned to their ploughs,
the merchants to their places of business and the Editors of the
Gazette are particularly well pleased to find themselves again
under the shade of their own vine and fig-tree, with nothing to
do but to provide for the intellectual recreation of their
rapidly increasing circle of weekly readers.[Sept. 29,
1858.]Central Illinois Gazette 1858[submitted by Don
aikman] [NEW!]
Left Matoon Saturday and
returned to Urbana, a town of 1,500 people, eighteen years old
(the town, not the people), with no public school house, one
Universalist Church, a decentish Court House,
dwelling small and ill-constructed, town lots surrounded by
Virginia fences and grown over with rank weeds. A shade of
Egyptian darkness there. It is, however, quite a temperance town,
is improving outward aspect of late, and has new public buildings
going up. It stands near a "timber island." The early
settlers chose spots near forests and streams, and paid the
penalty of sickness. It is healthier to settle on the prairies
and plant your own groves. I stopped at an excellent hotel in a
new village growing up at the depot. Southward were broad fields
of wheat, yellow for harvest—one of a hundred acres I
judged good for thirty bushels to the acre. [Moore's
Rural New Yorker Aug. 11, 1855 submitted by Don Aikman] [NEW!]
Gilbert
Stevens, of Homer, Ill., is visiting his relatives at this place
(Newton, Jasper County, IL) [January 2, 1874, The Newton Press,
Jasper County, IL - submitted by K. Torp] [NEW!]
Champaign
- The council of administration of the University of Illinois
barred the tango and the new one-step from halls in the
university district. The council also voted to allow only women
to use the women's building at the university. [Friday, December
12, 1913, Ste. Marie Tribune, Jasper County, IL - submitted by K.
Torp]
Champaign - Because they killed a red deer, which
had escaped from the F.K. Robeson farm, 7 men were fined $50 and
costs. It was the first prosecution of its kind in central
Illinois [Friday, December 12, 1913, Ste. Marie Tribune, Jasper
County, IL - submitted by K. Torp]
Champaign - Kenneth
McClellan, 4 years old, shot and killed his 2 year old sister
with a revolver he found under a bed. [Friday, December 12, 1913,
Ste. Marie Tribune, Jasper County, IL - submitted by K.
Torp]
Champaign - Gus Penman, charged with the murder of
Harold Shaw of Urbana, ill., took the witness stand at Champaign
and declared he had no recollection of the killing. [Friday,
December 19, 1913, Ste. Marie Tribune, Jasper County, IL -
submitted by K. Torp]
Detective
RITTENHOUSE, of Champaign, left Chester a few days ago, having in
custody Eugene WILLIAMS, wanted in Piatt County for
horse-stealing, and Shield CASPER, wanted in Champaign County for
running off mortgaged property. Williams was in the hold-over at
Chester, having been arrested as he came out of the penitentiary,
having just finished a term for a burglary committed in Jefferson
County. Casper was captured by the detective at Jonesboro. [The
Newton Press, Jasper Co., IL April 18, 1888, submitted by K.
Torp]
At West Urbana Illinois, on the 13th inst., Edward
Burrett stabbed Hugh Lynch in the abdomen, killing him. Whisky
had something to do with it. [Illinois State Chronicle (Decatur,
Illinois) April 24 1856 - Submitted by Nancy Piper [NEW!]
Keller-Hollis
Married in Homer, Ills., on 21st ult., Mr. John W. Keller and
Miss Caroline Hollis. [Illinois State Chronicle (Decatur,
Illinois) March 6 1856 - Submitted by Nancy Piper [NEW!]
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